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"The face of the operation is Briatore (referred to exclusively in the film by his colleagues and angry, chanting detractors as "Flavio"), an anthropomorphic radish who spends most of his time at QPR plotting to fire all of the managers."

At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”

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Pff... who cares about the #2 prospect in the country? He won't even be the best player to visit in the next month... What percent chance do we think that both Peppers and Hand both commit to us? 1.618% or so? Is it too early to speculate? You think it's too early to speculate. It's too early to speculate.

Michigan's run game is so bankrupt John L. Smith wants to buy thirty shares. - Hatin' Ass Spurrier

That rumor started at ohio and it shouldn't be endorsed on a site like MGoBlog! This is only serving to reinforce Urban's lies and I can't believe it got a 5. Hoke is NOT going to the NFL and anyone who tells you otherwise is a damn liar. Now let's stop spreading these baseless rumors about ourselves!

I know it's not like they've committed yet or anything, but Hoke & Co.'s ability to bring top talent to the school is phenomenal. Perhaps I'm just living the here and now, but it didn't seem to me that previous staff got as many high-profile visits [I became a Michigan fan in 2008, picked a poor year, but whatever].

Also, and perhaps even more importantly, Hoke & Co. have been able to identify talent early and get offers out early to get advantages with recruits. When they blow up on all the recruit ranking sites, Michigan will have given one of the earliest offers to the recruit, and have that much of a head start against other schools.

Keep up the good work!

I'm just going to keep saying Hoke & Co. I feel like it'd be a good general store name or something.

We haven't been contenders for players ranked this high since the Carr era. There were a few under RR who we had legitimate chances at (Dee Hart, Sammy Watkins come to mind), but not as many as under Hoke.

Just sayin... Derrick green was rated higher on rivals than both Dee Hart and Sammy Watkins. The year before Ondre Pipkins was ranked higher than either of those 2, with Kyle Kalis being just a hint behind them. I think hoke has done just fine.

to campus. But, Carr brought a fair number. It's just that there wasn't nearly as much visibility and scrutiny as to who was visiting in the earlier Carr years, especially in the absence of sites like this. For example, just recently Marcus Ray mentioned on WTKA how Peyton Manning was taking his campus recruiting visit to U-M the same weekend. And there were a few other well known names visiting that weekend too. So, Carr was pretty good for a while at getting great players to visit. He actually signed a couple of them too!

"You owe it to every man, woman, and child in the State of Michigan to beat the Buckeyes and silence their fans! Now go out there and make it happen!"

All other problems aside, RR did have problems landing some top talent in recruiting, but in his defense, if he wasn't under the gun for the entire 2011 recruiting class and then canned, he probably would have been able or at least had a good chance of landing Dee Hart, Kris Frost, and Sammy Watkins (although maybe him to a lessor extent). Not to say that Carr or Hoke didn't and isn't doing a better job of landing top talent.

I'm not getting my hopes up on a top running back this year. But next year with Damian Harris and mike webber next year, I'm really hoping we can land both. Harris may be a top three back and webber a top 15.

You can get your hopes up. I doubt we get the top RB in the country again, but I'm sure we'll pick up a 4 star top-150ish kid. Our offense is great for RBs and our OL is maybe the best in the country. Add in all the other reasons Michigan is great and one top RB will jump all over that.

I agree with you that Michigan should pull in someone. on paper michigan is one of the top schools In the nation but I've had my hopes up before just to watch recruits slip away. So until they sign I try to not get to excited. I think webber and Harris will be realistic options on a elite talent.

Now, there is a very, very slim chance Michigan gets anywhere near this, but yeah, that's a crazy RB haul over a two year period. So other teams besides Alabama can have multiple great RB classes back to back.

Gray was plauged with some nagging injuries a bit last year. He still ran for 701 yards on 149 attemps on a team with a very young O-line and terrible QB play. Also had 11 catches for 151 yards. The kid is very good still and will be good going forward. I think you'll see his numbers uptick as the QB and O-line get experience and get better (O-line, at least, has talent is just young, QB for UT is still a huge question mark). I fully expect Gray and Malcolm Brown to be one of the best one-two punches at RB in the country within the next two years (assuming Brown can actually get healthy).

Bushell-Beatty has a Michigan offer, along with offers from Florida, Florida State, etc. He's 6-7 310, ranked #320 on 247s composite rankings. Obviously Peppers is the big get among the these two visitors, but BB is no scrub.

Seems like the staff plans to take such a guy every year. Big guy with the size to be dominate, but a bit of a project. Seems like a potential competitor to Denzel Ward in terms of securing a spot in the class.